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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






2. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






3. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






4. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






5. Sources of fats






6. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






7. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






8. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






9. What is the function of vitamin C?






10. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






11. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






12. When does BMR decrease?






13. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






14. Name six sources of grains






15. The higher the BMR a client has --






16. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






17. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






18. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






19. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






20. What are healthy sources of fats?






21. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






22. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






23. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






24. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






25. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






26. What does DASH stand for?






27. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






28. What type of people need extra protein?






29. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






30. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






31. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






32. What is the function of vitamin E?






33. What is RDA of protein?






34. Where can you get more vitamin D?






35. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






36. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






37. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






38. What foods have high quality protein?






39. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






40. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






41. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






42. What function is vitamin D?






43. How many calories/gram is protein?






44. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






45. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






46. What is normal albumin levels?






47. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






48. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






49. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






50. How much meat/beans should be eaten?